One English Teacher to Another
…vein had already received, severing me from an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. That is why, walking across a school campus…
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July 12 is National Summer Learning Day!
…keep active all summer long. Plant a garden. Which grows faster: string beans or tomatoes? How tall does a pepper plant get? When you plant a garden this summer, involve…
Teaching Grammar . . . or Teaching Language?
…for the Mad Libs book she sent me, pictured here. (Mad Libs are stories with words removed and replaced by blank spaces.) It’s about parts of speech (which most of…
The End of School Movie
Out here in Central Illinois, many schools will be ending their 2017-18 terms in two weeks. There will be final exams, of course, and graduations. And, inevitably, there will be…
Artificial Intelligence in Education
…higher-order thinking skills. In seconds, AI provided insights that would typically take me months based on experience alone. My students and I created a blanket AI usage form to submit…
Unmasking the Mythical Narrative Surrounding the Five-Paragraph Essay
…If students are told that writing is a space that exists only for them to “fill in the blanks” of already curated knowledge, if students think that they need to…
Build Your Stack: Challenging Stereotypes—Books as Windows
…mean. I asked her what she had learned about the Black Panther Party and she stared at me, blankly. Another student clung to the detail that Jason Reynold’s protagonist Castle…
Dusty and Disregarded: Dictionaries Deserve More in the Secondary School Classroom
…dictionary editors, we attempted to create our own definitions for terms like education or family or life or marriage. Tricky, isn’t it? Afterward, we compared entries for these words among…
Learning: The Fine Art of Drowning
…would bestow straight A’s and praise at the blink of an eye. I did not. As hard as I pondered, I kept coming up blank. Sure, I enjoyed the antics…
Build Your Stack: Culturally-Affirming Adult Reads That Will Push Your Classroom Thinking
…a sound. Those times are when I am in my favorite reading spot, in our pink leather chair with a weighty throw blanket and a book, curled up like a…
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